To Sean Hannity: Please Do Not Make ‘Caitlyn’ Jenner into a Hero

Townhall ^ | 05/10/2021 | Dr. Michael Brown

[SeekAndFind]

I am not trying to demonize Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner or to portray him as some kind of moral monster. Obviously, I cannot relate to whatever internal struggles moved him to try to change his gender (which, for the record, cannot be done), and he may be a fine person and a decent human being in many other ways.

I am simply saying that, by no means should he be the latest poster boy/girl for conservative values, even if he is currently seeking to replace California’s radical governor, Gavin Newsom.

Yet last week, Jenner appeared in a very favorable exclusive interview with Sean Hannity, with Hannity (or the narrator) referring to Jenner as “she” or “her,” and with lines like, “California gubernatorial candidate Caitlyn Jenner will join us for her first exclusive interview.”

So, in the name of ousting a very liberal governor and helping restore California, Hannity has embraced some of the foundational values of transgender activism, referring to a biological male as “she” and referring to Bruce Jenner as “Caitlyn.”

For many years, I have said that LGBT activism was the principal threat to freedom of religion, speech, and conscience in America.

Now, with the Equality Act looming, an act which would literally gut religious freedoms in America, and with states having to pass bills to protect female sports, the last thing we need is to normalize trans identity in our conservative circles.

Before the actual interview on "Hannity," viewers saw a campaign video featuring lines like this: “I want to carry the torch for the parents who had to balance work and their child's education, for business owners who are forced to shut down, for pastors who were not able to be with their congregation, or the family who lost their home in a fire, for an entire generation of students who lost a year of education.”

With all respect to Jenner’s intentions, pastors do not need a transgender icon to fight their battles. Please.

Someone might say, “But you don’t get it. This is a great strategy, using a transgender celebrity – and a famous athlete at that – to speak against biological boys competing against girls.”

To the contrary, this amounts to trying to win a battle by surrendering the war.

In reality, it is only because of societal acceptance of people like Bruce Jenner as a woman that we’re even talking about boys who identify as girls competing against them. And if, as Jenner recently said, a male-to-female transgender teen is actually a biological boy, then Jenner is a biological man. And you don’t refer to a biological man as “she.”

Just look at some of Jenner’s statements from the interview, put side by side: “I love this country. I'm a patriarch. . . . I can't go to my hair salon.”

What? Caitlyn is a “patriarch”? And do patriarchs refer to the place where they get their hair done as a “hair salon”?

Jenner and Hannity agreed that “we've got bigger problems . . . than pronouns in the state of California.”

Yet if you accept the use of transgender pronouns than you have already lost the ideological war.

You have also capitulated morally, the very thing Prof. Jordan Peterson refused to do in Canada, which then launched him to international fame. (His famous words were, “If they fine me, I won’t pay it. If they put me in jail, I’ll go on a hunger strike. I’m not doing this. And that’s that. I’m not using the words that other people require me to use. Especially if they’re made up by radical left-wing ideologues.”)

Sadly, Hannity has already capitulated and without the least bit of coercion, at that. Caitlyn is “she” and “she” should be applauded for her stands.

And just as gay “marriage” further dealt a blow to the meaning of marriage in America, capitulating on pronouns deals a further blow to gender distinctions and gender identity.

And who will pay the ultimate price? The children, the ones who are bombarded with radical ideologies that cause them to question their gender identity, often making terrible, life-impacting decisions that they quickly learn to regret.

I’m thinking of people like Keira Bell, a 24-year-old British woman who took legal action against a National Health Service gender clinic, saying “she should have been challenged more by medical staff over her decision to transition to a male as a teenager.”

Now, living again as a woman, Bell has this to say: “The consequences of what happened to me have been profound: possible infertility, loss of my breasts and inability to breastfeed, atrophied genitals, a permanently changed voice, facial hair.”

Yet, to repeat, we have only gotten to this point in America (and the world) because of the larger, cultural acceptance of (and even celebration) of transgender identity to the point of branding one of our fabled, Olympic, male athletes “Woman of the Year.”

In the Hannity interview, Jenner said, “And I have always been on the Republican side, just because I have conservative economic values. You know, the old saying, lower taxes, less regulations, you know, a more friendly business environment, and we don't have that in California.

“But socially, I've much -- I've been much more progressive all my life.”

That is exactly the point that Ian Haworth was making in a recent Daily Wire op-ed about Jenner. Thus, for conservatives to celebrate Jenner for his comments about transgender sports would be similar to conservatives celebrating the head of Planned Parenthood if she spoke out against the sale of aborted baby parts.

My point, again, focuses on Jenner’s very identity, as he said during the interview: “But for me as a trans woman, I think role models are extremely important for young people. Trans issues people struggle with big time. Our suicide rate is nine times higher than the general public.

“And for me to be a role model to them, to be out there. I am running for governor of the state of California, who would have ever thunk that? We've never even had a woman governor.”

Is this really what Sean Hannity, one of the most-watched conservative broadcasters in the world, wants to highlight on his show, seeing Jenner as a role model? Have we really fallen so far?

[RaceBannon]

I warned you guys for years, the gop wants sodomy to be a family value.

[Beowulf9]

Get Newsom out.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I am not joining that freak show.

[dforest]

Jenner is an attention whore. This person is a joke.

[1Old Pro]

Jenner is an attention whore. This person is a joke.

Yep

[alloysteel]

Sean Hannity is being “cool” by being just a little bit “woke” to this transgender thing. But what is being promoted as “transgender” is nothing more than cross-dressing, wearing the apparel and taking on the mannerisms of the opposite gender, no fundamental change to the basic infrastructure at all.

Tolerance is just making a virtue out of having no conviction on a particular matter.

[bk1000]

Jenner is queer. We should not elevate queers.

[DEPcom]

“I warned you guys for years, the gop wants sodomy to be a family value.”

There are some here on Free Republic who would surrender their values (not sure if they had any to begin with) in order to have a Republican Governor in CA and other positions. If I live in CA I would not support Bruce Jenner, he is mentally ill and bad for CA.

[bigbob]

Voters (or election manipulators) in California have a say in this, everyone else should shut up about it.

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Caitlyn Jenner Conquers Her Fear of Swimsuits: See Her White-Hot Style

UsWeekly ^ | August 10, 2015 | Rachel Torgerson - Celebrity Style

White-hot! After admitting her insecurities about wearing a bathing suit, Caitlyn Jenner conquered her fear and rocked a sexy one-piece on the Aug. 9 episode of her E! reality series, I Am Cait.

For her swimsuit debut, Jenner opted for a white, one-shouldered monokini with intricate ties at the back. The former Olympian, 65, kept her hair in her blown-out, straight style and topped off the entire beachy look with a lace sarong and golden hoop earrings. ..."

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[RinaseaofDs]

Makes your skin crawl.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: everyone else should shut up about it.

That would include the many conservatives in California. Their shutting up about it will ensure another Democrat governor ( unless Republicans in California choose another candidate to run ).

[Manic_Episode]

Hannitys moral compass is not true north.

He also seems to have accepted the election fraud/coup.

[bray]

I would vote for Newsome before him.

[Guenevere]

Hannity sickened me by doing this!
I can’t imagine why he did it......Ratings?

I hope he didn’t get the ratings he wanted......what a sell out!

[spacejunkie2001]

maybe they’re dating.........DID YOU EVER THINK OF THAT????

lol

[BrexitBen]

Sean Hannity has a peculiar affinity for “ conservative “ heroes these days. Bruce Jenner, Lindsey Graham, Karl Rove, Frank Luntz.

Seems that Tucker Carlson is the only true conservative left on the new incarnation of Fox News.

[Bratch]

Jenner’s gubernatorial campaign is just another of the family’s seemingly endless reality performances.

That said, transgender folks are the Left’s latest “Victims-of-the-Week”. This seems like a good opportunity to hoist them on their own petard.

I’m sure if you examine social media, there would be plenty of examples of “wokeness” in their comments about “Caitlyn”.